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From: "Marilyn \"Mel\" Nickless" <>
Subject: Re: Explanations for genealogists...
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:06:29 -0700
References: <20000725.160728.-3860621.3.WRTRACY@juno.com>


Thanks for posting Wanda. There's some very helpful information there.
: )


Marilyn




----- Original Message -----
From: Wanda R Tracy <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:07 PM
Subject: Explanations for genealogists...


> I received this email from another Mail list and as I thought it has
> some useful information, you all might think so too.
>
> Wanda
>
> Some of you have the land description and want to know how to read it.
> Land Description:
> S1/2 NW1/4 S14 T19N R10E. This is a description of land. It is read
> from
> back to front, first finding on a map the Range, then Township, then
> Section.
> This piece of land would be the south 1/2 of the northwest 1/4 part of
> Section number 14 in a specific Township.
>
> Land Measures:
> 1. length: one mile equals 5280 feet, eighty chains, 320 rods, or 1760
> yards.
> One rod equals 5.50 years, 16.5 feet or 25 links
>
> 2. Area: one square mile equals 640 acres or 102,400 square rods. One
> acre
> equals 4840 square yards or 43,500 square feet. One square rod equals
> 30.25
> square yards, or .006 of a square acre.
>
> Yard Land:
> 1. A quantify of land which varies from fifteen to forty acres. In some
> places a quarter of an acre was called a yard of land.
> 2. a barn or pen for animals
> 3. a farmyard
>
> Land Patent: the document which states the settler had a permanent claim
> and
> was the first purchaser of a piece of land.
>
> Land Right: the legal obligations which are attached to ownership of
> land.
>
> Land Warrant: a certificate issued by a land office which entitled the
> possessor to a certain number of acres of land. The certificate was
> negotiable.
>
> Military warrant: a document issued by the land office requesting that
> land
> be set aside for a veteran entitled to it for his military service. The
> land
> was located in Ohio and Kentucky and eligibility for its ownership was
> based
> upon the veteran's military certificate.
>
> Military Certificate: a document stating that a person's proof of
> military
> service had been presented to the proper authorities and, therefore, he
> was
> eligible for a specific amount of land as compensation. There was only
> one
> claim to this type of land available to each person.
>
> Military land: public land which was reserved for Revolutionary or War of
> 1812 soldiers to receive as part of their compensation for service.
>
> Bounty Land (Federal) shortly after the beginning of the Revolutionary
> War
> the Continental Congress promised land to those who would serve in the
> Continental Army. The acreage of land so promised was on a sliding scale
> based on rank. For example, an enlisted man was to receive 100 acres,
> while
> a
> major general was to have 1,000 acres.
>
> Bounty land (State) in some states the promise of issuing land for
> service
> in
> the Rev. War was far more liberal than that of the federal government
> which
> led many veterans to trade bounty land warrants for state warrants.
>
> Patriotic service: during the Revolutionary War these persons did not
> serve
> on the field of battle, but served as wagoners, furnished ammunition or
> supplies and therefore were eligible for pensions. Many services to the
> Continental Army are now a part of the regular army; chaplains,
> physicians,
> veterinarians, paymasters, quartermasters, etc.
>
>
> Bondman:
> 1. male slave
> 2. a man who had been bound into service without wages being paid
> 3. a tenant who was not free, a villein.
>
> "bond" servant: an indentured servant
>
> Bondsman: a person, sometimes referred to as a surety, who pledges a sum
> of
> money as bond for another.
>
> Bondwoman: a female slave
> Bondmaid: a female who has been bound into service with no wages paid/a
> female slave.
>
> Marriage Bond: in Colonial days, this was a sum of money promised,
> usually
> by the parents or a close relative of a young couple, to the governor of
> the
> state. This was asked to ensure that there was no reason, moral or legal,
> for
> the couple not to marry and that they would not become charity cases.
> Money
> did not actually change hands, but could be called for if the marriage
> did
> not fulfill the requirements.
>
> Marriage register: a book which lists marriage licenses issued and,
> frequently, marriage returns. This book is kept at a clerk's office in
> the
> courthouse.
>
> Marriage return: notation by a minister which states on which date he
> married
> a couple.
>
> Nephew:
> 1. the male child of a person's brother or sister
> 2. sometimes in old documents can refer to other relatives: grandson,
> cousin,
> etc.
> 3. a descendant
>
> Neeveye: descendants
>
> Nee: born. This word is used after a married woman's surname to indicate
> her
> maiden name, e.g. Mrs. Marian Johnson, nee Baker.
>
> New mother: a Colonial term for a stepmother.
>
> Overseer:
> 1. A Colonial official appointed to do one of any number of supervisory
> jobs,
> a road supervisor
> 2. an officer of the Quaker church who had the duties of the business
> affairs
> of the meeting, preparing answers to queries, giving advice to members
> and
> preventing the introduction of unnecessary matters and premature
> complaints
> into meetings for business and discipline
> 3. Ordnance office in charge of construction. Sometimes he is called a
> superintendent
> 4. A person in charge of work on a plantation
> 5. An overlooker frequently appointed in wills. Sometimes the executor
> was
> called an overseer
> 6. a man in the pillory
>
> Overseer of the poor: in Colonial days the person appointed to this post
> purchased the materials to be used in work done by the unemployed. He
> also
> dispensed aid to the poor.
>
> Overseer of the road: a person appointed to maintain a specified stretch
> of
> road. He obtained workers to care for the road from the people who lived
> along it and used the road most frequently.
>
> Ever heard of A Welsh uncle
> It means first cousin of a parent.
>
>
>


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